Ethan Coen Quotes

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• We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
• There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you…
• Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed…
• I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies
• The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not…
• Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if…
• When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece…
• Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
• I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me…
• I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.
• We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.
• We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.

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